IT IS FOUR FEET LONG AND IT COULD INJURE OR KILL A CHILD. OFFICIALS SAY THE ANIMAL IS RARE AND IS ILLEGAL TO HAVE AS A PET. RICHARD SHARP IS LIVE IN ROSEVILLE WHERE THIS ABANDONED REPTILE TURNED UP. WHAT A SITE. THAT CROCODILE BUSTED OUT OF A PLASTIC CONTAINER. IT WAS ABANDONED AND EVEN THOUGH IT WAS TAPED UP, IT WANDERED THROUGH THE PARKING LOT AND ENDED UP OVER THERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PARKING LOT BEFORE ANIMAL CONTROL WAS ABLE TO FIND IT AND CAPTURE IT. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE TO SAY THIS ANIMAL IS DANGEROUS. THIS IS THE VIDEO OF ANIMAL CONTROL CATCHING A FOUR FOOT CROCODILE WANDERING AROUND AT A ROSEVILLE STRIP MALL. THIS ONE IS A NASTY CROCODILE. IT HAS A BAD ATTITUDE. THIS IS A PLASTIC CONTAINER THAT IT ESCAPED FROM. IT WAS LEFT AT A POPULAR REPTILE SHOP. THEY OUT -- OWNERS COULD NO LONGER HANDLE THEM. A CROCODILE IS UNUSUAL. UNUSUAL AND ILLEGAL TO OWN. A NOTE LEFT SAID IT WAS A NILE CROCODILE WHICH CAN GROW UP TO 20 FEET. NONANIMAL THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE AS A PET. I AM NOT JUST SAYING THAT. THIS ANNUAL -- ANIMAL IS DANGEROUS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST RARE ANIMALS THEY HAVE DEALT WITH. MOST LIKELY IT WAS ILLEGALLY BROUGHT INTO THE COUNTRY OR IT WAS ILLEGALLY KIND -- CAPTURED. I HAVE SEEN SIX ALLIGATORS AND A COUPLE OF CAYMAN . I HAVE NEVER SEEN A CROCODILE. IT BROKE OUT IN THE PARKING LOT. EVEN THOUGH THE MOUTH WAS TAPED SHUT. THE TEMPERATURE -- TEMPERAMENT IS SO NASTY IT WILL BE DONATED

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